{ "id": "AIBD-0160", "title": "Istanbul police's AVCI messaging-analysis system used for the first time in a 10 February 2026 drug operation across 14 provinces: 325 suspects detained and remanded, 69 dealer groups closed", "summary": "Istanbul police's AI-based AVCI system, first used 10 February 2026 in a 14-province drug operation: 325 detained and remanded, 69 groups closed.", "date_observed": "2026-02-10", "date_basis": "unassessed", "date_precision": "unassessed", "benefit_status": null, "source_collection": null, "source_entry": null, "account": "AVCI (Açık Kaynak İstihbaratı Analiz Sistemi, Open Source Intelligence Analysis System) is an AI-supported program. The Istanbul Police Department's narcotics and cybercrime divisions built it in-house with a special software team. Police chief Selami Yıldız ordered the work. It infiltrates closed groups and channels on end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. It analyzes messages, voice notes, photos and location data. It decodes dealer slang, recovers deleted messages, links fake profiles and maps group hierarchies. Anadolu Agency reported on 6 April 2026 that AVCI was first used on 10 February 2026. The drug operation was centered on Istanbul and ran across 14 provinces. 325 suspects were detained. All 325 referred to court were remanded in custody. 69 messaging-app groups were closed.", "category": "benefit created", "unexpected": false, "purpose": "Istanbul police built AVCI to infiltrate and analyze encrypted messaging groups used for drug dealing. It also identifies suspects, fake profiles and network hierarchies. The 10 February operation was that intended use.", "system": "AVCI (Açık Kaynak İstihbaratı Analiz Sistemi): AI-supported open-source intelligence analysis software that infiltrates closed groups on encrypted messaging apps and analyzes messages, media and location data with natural language processing", "model_version": null, "developer": "Istanbul Police Department (İstanbul Emniyet Müdürlüğü), narcotics and cybercrime divisions with an in-house software team", "deployer": "Istanbul Police Department, Anti-Narcotics and Cybercrime divisions", "location": "Istanbul, Turkey", "domain": "Law enforcement / narcotics investigation", "segment": "Provincial police force", "benefit_type": "Reduced Violence", "taxonomy_note": null, "registry_ids": { "oecd_aim": "2026-04-06-4878" }, "ratings": [ { "group": "organizational", "depth": 2, "reason": "In one operation the force detained 325 suspects across 14 provinces and closed 69 dealer groups. All 325 were remanded. The sources give no comparison with operations before AVCI, so the gain to the force is not measured." }, { "group": "societal", "depth": 2, "reason": "The police say the operation disrupted drug sales networks run through encrypted groups and social media across 14 provinces. No source measures any effect on drug supply or on the public. A population-level benefit is not established." } ], "ai_role": { "status": "assessed", "statement": "By the police account relayed by Anadolu Agency, AVCI infiltrated closed messaging groups and decoded slang and coded language. It recovered deleted messages, linked fake profiles through IP analysis and mapped group hierarchies. That work produced the suspects and groups targeted on 10 February. Police and courts carried out the detentions, referrals and remands. The sources include no independent evaluation of the system. No official is quoted on how many of the 325 were identified by AVCI rather than by conventional work. The sources name no developer beyond the police's own software team." }, "evidence": [ { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Anadolu Ajansı (2026). İstanbul Emniyeti yapay zeka destekli AVCI'yla uyuşturucu satıcılarının 'siber' inlerine giriyor. aa.com.tr, 6 April 2026.", "title": "İstanbul Emniyeti yapay zeka destekli AVCI'yla uyuşturucu satıcılarının 'siber' inlerine giriyor", "url": "https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/istanbul-emniyeti-yapay-zeka-destekli-avciyla-uyusturucu-saticilarinin-siber-inlerine-giriyor/3894439", "date": "2026-04-06", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "AVCI ilk kez, İstanbul Narkotik Suçlarla Mücadele ve Siber Suçlarla Mücadele Şube müdürlükleri ekiplerince 10 Şubat'ta kent merkezli 14 ilde düzenlenen uyuşturucu operasyonunda kullanıldı." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Haberler.com (2026). İstanbul Emniyeti yapay zeka destekli AVCI'yla uyuşturucu satıcılarının 'siber' inlerine giriyor. haberler.com, 6 April 2026, crediting Anadolu Ajansı.", "title": "İstanbul Emniyeti yapay zeka destekli AVCI'yla uyuşturucu satıcılarının 'siber' inlerine giriyor", "url": "https://www.haberler.com/guncel/istanbul-emniyeti-yapay-zeka-destekli-avci-yla-19720800-haberi/", "date": "2026-04-06", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "adliyeye sevk edilen 325 zanlının tamamı sevk edildikleri adli makamlarca tutuklanmıştı." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Akşam (2026). Zehir tacirleriyle mücadelede yeni dönem: AVCI göz açtırmıyor. aksam.com.tr, 6 April 2026, crediting Anadolu Ajansı.", "title": "Zehir tacirleriyle mücadelede yeni dönem: AVCI göz açtırmıyor", "url": "https://www.aksam.com.tr/guncel/zehir-tacirleriyle-mucadelede-yeni-donem-avci-goz-actirmiyor/haber-1656417", "date": "2026-04-06", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Yapay zeka destekli projenin ilk kez kullanıldığı operasyonda 325 şüpheli gözaltına alınmış" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Hürriyet (2026). AVCI uyuşturucunun 'siber' inlerinde. hurriyet.com.tr, 7 April 2026, Anadolu Ajansı byline.", "title": "AVCI uyuşturucunun 'siber' inlerinde", "url": "https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/avci-uyusturucunun-siber-inlerinde-43145237", "date": "2026-04-07", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "İstanbul Emniyet Müdürlüğü tarafından hazırlanan yapay zekâ destekli Açık Kaynak İstihbaratı Analiz Sistemi (AVCI), uçtan uca şifreli iletişim uygulamalarının kapalı grup ve kanallarına sızarak, uyuşturucu tacirlerine göz açtırmıyor." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Gökmen, E. (2026). İstanbul'da uyuşturucu satıcılarına yönelik operasyonda yapay zeka \"AVCI\" aktif rol aldı. Anadolu Agency, 17 July 2026.", "title": "İstanbul'da uyuşturucu satıcılarına yönelik operasyonda yapay zeka \"AVCI\" aktif rol aldı", "url": "https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/istanbulda-uyusturucu-saticilarina-yonelik-operasyonda-yapay-zeka-avci-aktif-rol-aldi/4000945", "date": "2026-07-17", "written_by": "independent", "quote": null } ], "replication": { "produced_by": [ "In-house police software that infiltrates closed groups on encrypted messaging apps and analyzes messages, media and location data with natural language processing", "A coordinated same-day operation across 14 provinces in which the identified suspects were detained and referred to court" ], "must_hold": [ "Police have access to the closed groups and to the server-side data the sources say the system uses to recover deleted messages and link profiles", "Courts remand the suspects. The sources report all 325 remanded, but no later charging or conviction outcomes", "The attribution of the suspects to AVCI, rather than to conventional investigation, is the police's own. No independent evaluation exists" ], "echoes": [] }, "paired_incident": null, "headline": "Istanbul police's AVCI detains 325 and closes 69 dealer groups", "metric": "325 detained and remanded, 69 groups closed", "comparator": { "against": "manual analysis of messaging data by police staff", "before": "insan gücüyle aylar sürecek bir analiz", "after": "saniyeler içine sığdırılarak", "basis": "assumed", "quote": "Programla suç gerçekleşmeden önce istihbarat odaklı yapılan çalışmayla insan gücüyle aylar sürecek bir analiz saniyeler içine sığdırılarak, uyuşturucu baronlarının dijital maskeleri düşürülüyor.", "url": "https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/istanbul-emniyeti-yapay-zeka-destekli-avciyla-uyusturucu-saticilarinin-siber-inlerine-giriyor/3894439" }, "later": { "status": "persisted", "date": "2026-07-17", "note": "AVCI was used again in an Istanbul-based operation across 35 provinces in which 110 suspects were detained and 65 Telegram groups and channels were closed.", "quote": "İstanbul merkezli 35 ilde uyuşturucu satıcılarına yönelik düzenlenen ve 110 zanlının yakalandığı operasyonda, yapay zeka destekli Açık Kaynak İstihbaratı Analiz Sistemi (AVCI) kullanıldı.", "url": "https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/istanbulda-uyusturucu-saticilarina-yonelik-operasyonda-yapay-zeka-avci-aktif-rol-aldi/4000945" }, "value": null, "developer_country": "Turkey", "deployer_country": "Turkey", "unrated_because": null, "brief_notes": null, "brief": null, "revisions": [ { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Record drafted from the OECD Monitor entry and the cited sources.", "source": "https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2026-04-06-4878", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Benefit type set to Reduced Violence under Trustible's full taxonomy of 23 types; it was Improved Organizational Efficiency among the six first used.", "source": "https://trustible.ai/post/a-framework-for-measuring-the-benefits-of-ai/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Added what the benefit is measured against, what happened since from the cited sources.", "source": "https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/istanbul-emniyeti-yapay-zeka-destekli-avciyla-uyusturucu-saticilarinin-siber-inlerine-giriyor/3894439; https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/istanbulda-uyusturucu-saticilarina-yonelik-operasyonda-yapay-zeka-avci-aktif-rol-aldi/4000945", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Country of the developer and the deployer added from the organization's own site or a registry.", "source": "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/İstanbul_Emniyet_Müdürlüğü; https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/İstanbul_Emniyet_Müdürlüğü", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Prose pass: a rating reason, account, purpose, the replication conditions, the system's part rewritten in shorter sentences with abbreviations expanded; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" } ], "confidence": "reported", "shade": "medium", "claim_status": "Independently reported", "claim_basis": "Sources: five independent news reports. 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